Product Designer, Principal Associate Level

Product Designer, Principal Associate Level On the Commercial Card Design team, we believe managing a corporate card program should feel effortless. We're seeking a hands-on, craft-focused product designer to make that belief a reality by shaping a platform that serves everyone from everyday employees to senior finance leaders. In this role, you'll own the end-to-end design of new features and core workflows, transforming complex problems into elegant and intuitive solutions.

You’ll ground your decisions in deep user insights, apply your passion for craft, and leverage our design system to ensure consistency and scale, all in close partnership with research, product, tech, and design peers.

The Experience Design team at Capital One is at the forefront of enriching our customers’ digital and physical experiences. We champion a thriving environment of collaboration, authenticity and healthy critique, in which we honor diversity of thought, create a culture of belonging, and elevate one another. If you’re a creative innovator who embraces an environment where you can experiment, learn, and change banking for good, we’d love to hear from you.##

Role Expectations As a Product Designer, you’ll combine your craft expertise with an understanding of our customers and the business to co-create innovative solutions to complex problems.

Here are some of the expected competencies for this role:

Product Design Expertise:
Leverage deep expertise in product design and skills across interaction, visual and service design to elevate the quality and maturity of the design practice at Capital One; in collaboration with cross-functional partners, use appropriate tools, platforms, frameworks and design systems and work with teams to create artifacts that may include journey maps, blueprints, high-fidelity designs and prototypes

Human-Centered:
Champion the customer through the design process, leveraging critical-thinking skills that factor in data, research insights, scalability, tech constraints and feedback

Business-Focused:
Understand and apply business and customer strategy, facilitate design process activities with team and partners, negotiating customer needs and business goals for harmonious outcomes

Problem-Solving:
Actively build an understanding of the potential of tech and data capabilities and emerging technologies and use this knowledge to inform work, identify new opportunities and help your team navigate technical limitations

Collaboration:

Foster relationships with partners and continuously expand your network, listening to diverse points of view and collaborating with an informed perspective to influence outcomes, break down silos and gain alignment

Communication:
Present work to audiences across levels and job functions using a human-centered approach that integrates design frameworks, data and research insights to effectively articulate insights and design decisions

The ideal candidate has a strong portfolio demonstrating their process, results, and impact.##
** Basic Qualifications
*** At least 3 years of experience in a Product Design role
* At least 3 years of experience with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma
** Preferred Qualifications
*** At least 4 years of experience in a Product Design role
* At least 4 years of experience with design and prototyping tools, such as Figma
* At least 4 years of experience collaborating with product, tech and business partners
* At least 4 years of experience working with an established design system
* Experience working in heavily regulated, data heavy problem spaces

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

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